1、 Branch stem difference

Ivory tree is a small evergreen tree or tree, with grayish brown or black bark, gray branchlets, hard hair or pilose, and will fall off to be glabrous in the later stage, with scattered lenticels. Eurya is a shrub with reddish brown or grayish brown branchlets and no hair

2、 Blade difference

The leaves of ivory are leathery, obovate, round or blunt at the apex, gradually narrow at the base, dark green and shiny above, and light green below. The leaves of Eurya litura are thick leathery, obovate lanceolate, round and slightly concave at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, dark green or green and shiny above, yellow green or light green below